Improvement in gates



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I P i i l HENRY RJ'HOSKINS, HABLAN, INDIANA.

` Letters Patent No. 110,363, dated December 20, 187,0.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

` sliding gates, and consists in combining therewith a pair of yokes which actuate, support, and guide the said gate, as more particularly described hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a-side elevation of my improved gate when closed, and

Figure 2 is a side elevation when open.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the gate, and B the section or panel of the fence along which the gate slides or moves in opening and closing.

C and D represent vertical bars attached to the gate, one at the center and the other at the rear cud, which rise considerably above the top, and have vertical slots E in the upper parts.

F represents pins or bars nearly as long as the bars C I), pivoted near the ground-one pair at the front end of the panel B of the fence and the other as far back as the Idistance between the bars G D, and as near the path of the gate as may be, and let it pass between the bars of each pin. rlhese bars carry rollers G on studs at the sides next the gate, near the top, which rollerswork in the slots H represents short barsor connecting-links, about half the length of the bars F pivoted to the bars C, one to each, at the bottom, and jointed to the long bars F at or about the center.

I represents a pair of bars jointed together at one end in the form of au isosceles triangle, and jointed at the lower ends of the two sides to the bars F on, one side ofthe gate, a short distance below the joints of the bars H with the said bars'.

K is a weightedlever jointed to these bars I, where they are jointed together, or at the apex of the triangle, and pivoted at L to any suitable support rising up from the ground. This pivot L is arranged at about the center of the front half of the panel B, which is also about the center or the space between the bottom pivots F of the bars F. The gate is therefore suspended ou the bars F, and is carried past their pivot centers F' ou the bars H. These bars, together with the rollers G at the top of the bars F, prevent the gate from tilting endwise on the bars F, and the weighted lever K holds the bars F from sagging by theweight of the gate when the gate is shut either way beyond the pivot centers F.

- By this arrangement the gate moves with but very little friction, and it does not rise andfall, owing to the compensating action of the movements of the' pivot-points Hl and I-l2 moving in equal arcs, reversed as to each other.

It will be perceived,also, that the yoles pivoted to the adjacent fixed panel, support the gate lby means of the straps H, embrace and guide it as they travel in the slots E, and actuate it whenever moved ou their pivots.

I am aware of the sliding gate patented February 4, 1868, to J. Atkins, and therefore desire explicitly to disclaim any part or device thereof as any part of' my invention. l

, Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention,

What I esteem to'be new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The lever-yokes F, pivoted to the bottom of panel Y B, embracing the gate on each side, and lnoving in the slots E to guideit, actuating and supporting it by the straps H, and operated by a weighted lever and strap K I, all as and for the purpose described.

HENRY B. HOSKINS.

Witnesses:

SoLMoN BENINGHOFF, FREDRIGK Bo'rTnRoN. 

